Letter: If you want to talk about a president abasing himself before a tyrant ...

I read in today’s Arizona Republic that Senator John McCain, referring to President trump’s visit with Vladmir Putin, was quoted as saying, “No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.”

I have to wonder, where was Senator McCain when President Obama was bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia. Wanna talk about a president abasing himself before a tyrant.

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Manners being foreign to most trumpistas, I see why you misunderstand.

71% of repubs think trump prostrating himself and the US in front of an ex-KGB agent-- a man who would poison you and your family for looking at him cross eyed-- was okay.

trumps' timidity, submissive posture and ingratiating words to Putin were painfully, embarrassingly, obvious to anyone not blinded by partisanship.

Behavioral research has defined a syndrome, a cognitive bias, referred to as the Dunning-Kruger Effect. The data indicates, partly, that incompetent people are too incompetent to recognize their own incompetence.

In other words, stupid people are too stupid to know how stupid they are.

I opine that that applies to 71% of repubs.

"trump derangement syndrome" is misdirected at normal people who recognize incompetence, ignorance, criminal behavior and still respect the democratic institutions that have long served the US.

The "real American's."

The truly deranged are the 71% who now accept lie as fact, incompetence as shining example, corruption as virtue and look to support a man who would be dictator for life.

Trump aired the USA's dirty laundry on the international stage and that is unacceptable. You make a people great by celebrating their achievements, championing their causes, never allowing criticism from outsiders and keeping their embarrassments private.